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“Criticism is fine … but there is a difference between criticism and investigation”

In December, three members of the Senate Intelligence committee – Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) — asked the CIA to provide information about the details it gave Boal and “Zero Dark Thirty” director Kathryn Bigelow about the effort to find and later kill Osama bin Laden. The trio also sent a letter to Sony Pictures Entertainment – the studio that released the film – claiming that “Zero Dark Thirty” was “grossly inaccurate” in suggesting torture played a role in extracting information that would eventually lead to bin Laden.

On the criticism aimed at the film’s accuracy, Boal pushed back to a degree.

“These topics are controversial. I think the controversy in a lot of ways predates the film. And I believe that we capture the essence of what happened and so do many other people who have lived through it,” Boal said. “I approached the research the way I would’ve approached the research of any article or if I was writing a book. But then there’s a second stage, which is you take that research and you compile it and transform it into a screenplay. It’s dramatized.”

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I was not planning to see the movie as I assumed it would be a typical Hollywood snow job. But with those names attached to a denunciation of it, I’m now thinking it may be a spot on account of what really happened, so now I will go see it. Anything Dianne Feinstein hates has got to be good.

Can’t wait for McVain to pass from this mortal realm. This fool has used his moral authority as a POW vet to aide and abet all of our enemies, starting with the VC. just as he has passed on the graves of the MIA, don’t expect one kind word from me as he goes to judgement day. What a POS.